ESPN, Hallmark Roll to Weekly Primetime Cable Ratings Win

With the holiday TV season in full swing, ESPN and Hallmark Channel battled to a first place tie in last week’s primetime cable ratings race, according to Nielsen.

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ESPN, bolstered by its coverage of the final weeks of both college football and NFL Monday Night Football regular season schedules, and Hallmark – boosted by its annual original holiday movie lineup --tied for the top spot among cable networks for the period of Nov. 26 to Dec. 2 with 2.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen.

Fox News was close behind in third place with 2 million viewers, followed by MSNBC with 1.9 million viewers, and USA Network and HGTV, which tied with 1.1 million viewers.